Harrisburg School District cancels classes for high schoolers over student’s death

Harrisburg School District has announced that it is cancelling classes for high school students on Thursday in response to a student death.

The school district said that “due to a tragic death of a high school student” the following campuses would not hold classes for high schoolers: John Harris, SciTech and Cougar Academy.

The district did not state in its announcement how the student died, but a district spokesperson told an ABC27 reporter that it was “safe to say” the victim of Wednesday afternoon’s homicide in Harrisburg was a student.

Harrisburg School District’s spokesperson said schools will be closed tomorrow for the death of a student. She said it’s “safe to say” the student was the victim of tonight’s homicide on Bellevue Road. @AlexBPeterson will be live tonight at 11 with the latest.